Definitions for taws

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Spelling: [tawz, tahz]

IPA: /tɔz, tɑz/

Taws is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in taws (astw).

Definitions for taws

noun

1. a whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.
2. a leather whip having its tip divided into smaller strips, used to punish schoolchildren.
3. a choice or fancy marble used as a shooter.
4. a game in which marbles are arranged in the center of a circle drawn or scratched on the ground, the object being to knock out as many as possible from the circle; ringer.
5. Also, taw line. the line from which the players shoot.
6. tav.

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare or dress (some raw material) for use or further manipulation.
2. to transform the skin of an animal into white leather by the application of minerals, emulsions, etc.
3. Archaic. to flog; thrash.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot a marble.

Origin of taws

1505-15; plural of obsolete taw Old Norse taug rope; cognate with Old English tēag tie

Examples for taws

From that moment he ruled them by his eye, the taws vanished.

They will use the taws on baby hands, that cannot make a ‘k’ or a ‘z’ at first sight.

If his mother had laid on the taws better, he would nae hae been sae skeigh.

The game is concluded when all the marbles are shot out of the ring, or all the taws are killed.

"You deserve the taws about your back, sirrah, to forget my sacred office so far as to speak so," said the minister.

One whipped daily and hourly with a hickory club with leather thongs attached at one end; this he called the "taws."

And you may helpe them much by enlarging their rootes with the taws of the tree, whence you take them.

Alleys are the most valuable and are always reserved to be used as “taws” (the marble actually used by the player).

He went back to "taws," and "lagged for goes," with the others.